From: David Dunham , via RadioMail (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Tue 16 Nov 1993 - 20:17:29 EET
Do spells such as Countermagic or Cast Back protect against a Sunspear?
"The target's thinnest armor only will protect against this damage, spells
are ineffective [including armor-like spells such as Protection or
Shield]." (brackets added in errata) By contrast, thunderbolt says "Neither
armor nor spells that protect against physical damage are effective against
this spell, though countermagic will work." The different wording implies
that the spells are different. But Cast Back "affects any offensive spell,"
and is obviously not armor-like.
I'm leaning towards the 'anti-magic defenses protect against Sunspear,' in part because in Griffin Island (probably the supplement in which sorcery is best presented), Halcyon var Enkorth hasn't been zotted out of existence by the Sunspear-using Hilme cult.
My player Pam says:
>Also, does "thinnest armor counts" mean the most lightly armored location?
That seems pretty clear. Sunspear definitely ignores armor-like spells, and seeks out your weakest spot.
Sandy said:
>Also the Impala folks are
>masters of riding away from you at full speed, firing arrows as they
>flee
The RQ rules aren't real big on restricting the Parthian Shot -- can't anyone do this? (Of course, RQ2 Kuschile Archery always seemed like a redundant skill too.)
>From: graeme.lindsell@anu.edu.au (Graeme A Lindsell)
> Any ideas why the Genertelan population is so small? With the various
>fertility spells and magical healing I would expect the population
>to be bigger than medieval Europe, rather than less.
Because Genert is dead, which greatly reduces the productivity of Genertela. Plus there are LOTS of wars, and nasty folks like Malia.
>From: watson@computing-science.aberdeen.ac.uk (Colin Watson)
>Setting an adventure on board ship is a good way of localising the action
Unfortunately, it's also an excellent way of excluding your scenario from most Sartarite or Praxian campaigns, since neither have any ports.
>From: 100270.337@CompuServe.COM (Nick Brooke)
>: Heavy, uncomfortable, unbearably
>: hot, the panoply was especially poorly suited for the Mediterranean
>: summer; it restricted even simple movement, and in general must have
>: made life miserable for the men who were expected to wear it.
Very hard to game this, however... (and two recommendations for Victor Davis Hanson in the same issue!) There really aren't any tradeoffs for wearing heavy armor.
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